Date: Tue, 24 Dec 2002 17:25:23 -0500 From: "Bill Moran" <bill_moran2@hotmail.com> To: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Argument list too long: limitation in grep? bash? FreeBSD? Message-ID: <F75NOUivlQoMuDGzxTs0003baec@hotmail.com>
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d/l the entire php documentation as individual html files. This equates to a LOT of files in a single directory (how can I get a count of this?) Anyway, I'm trying to find the docs on some features that the www.php.net's search isn't really helping on (searching for __FILE__ doesn't search for __FILE__ ... it searches for file, and there's too many results) so I try: grep __FILE__ *.html and I get the error: -bash: /usr/bin/grep: Argument list too long Is this a shortcoming of bash, grep or FreeBSD? I'm assuming it's not grep, as the command: find . -name *.html -print | xargs grep __FILE__ yeilds: -bash: /usr/bin/find: Argument list too long I did a little research, and Linux has the MAX_ARG_PAGES kernel option to increase the size of the command line arguments it can process ... does FreeBSD have such a kernel option, or some other way of overcoming this limit? _________________________________________________________________ MSN 8 with e-mail virus protection service: 3 months FREE*. http://join.msn.com/?page=features/virus&xAPID=42&PS=47575&PI=7324&DI=7474&SU= http://www.hotmail.msn.com/cgi-bin/getmsg&HL=1216hotmailtaglines_eliminateviruses_3mf To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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